E&C Advances Telehealth Privacy, MA Health Tech Bills

The House Energy & Commerce health subcommittee advanced several digital health bills Wednesday (Nov. 15), including measures that would partially address stakeholders’ concerns about privacy for telehealth providers and would allow Medicare Advantage plans to cover new medical technologies as supplemental benefits, like remote monitoring devices. The first bill, the Medicare Telehealth Privacy Act, would require a telehealth provider’s home address be concealed from public view when disclosed on Medicare enrollment forms. Telehealth advocates have been pushing CMS to nix...